History ShoutOut / Cyberpunk2077

* ''Film/TheCrow'': Later in the game, Johnny Silverhand drops the line "It can't rain all the time", a reference to Eric Draven's pre-revenant life as a rocker guitarist/singer in a dystopian urban setting.

* Before the 2.0 update retconned V's age down to 23, they were 27 years old and can, in most of the endings, "die" a legend at that age - making them a member of the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club 27 Club.]] However, V's new age also carries a reference: "[[Music/{{Coolio}} I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?]] [[Music/GangstasParadise The way things is going, I don't know.]]"

* Before the 2.0 update retconned V's age down to 23, they were 27 years old and can, in most of the endings, "die" a legend at that age - making them a member of the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club 27 Club]].

* The plot of ''Phantom Liberty'' involves V being tasked with rescuing the President of the (N)USA after their place crashes into a dangerous place in America in order to save their life. Sounds awfully familiar to [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork another film with the same premise...]]

* The plot of ''Phantom Liberty'' involves V being tasked with rescuing the President of the (N)USA from a dangerous place in America in order to save their life. Sounds awfully familiar to [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork another film with the same premise...]]

* Prior to the 2.0 update, the icon for the "Assassin" perk referenced the classic image of Deckard holding his gun at the ready, while the one for "Edgerunner Artisan" was the iconic origami unicorn. When these were removed as part of 2.0's skill tree overhaul, a new perk for bladed weapons was added with the name "Finisher: Bladerunner".

* Much of the cyberpunk langauge, including "cyberspace," ICE (referring to intrusion countermeasure electronics), and "flatlined" originated in either Burning Chrome or the Sprawl Trilogy.
* Night City itself seems to be based on the "Night City" district of Chiba City in Neuromancer
* The dollhouses bear a strong resemblance to the work ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'s'' Molly Millions did to afford her implants (and also the House of Blue Lights from Gibson's earlier short story "Burning Chrome"). And just like them, there's an ugly side that gets revealed throughout Evelyn's story.

* The engram of Alt Cunningham plays a similar role to the construct of Dixie Flatline, a digitally preserved dead computer hacker in ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}''.

* In the side-mission "Epistrophy," one of the rogue Delamain cabs you have to find has been hijacked by none other than SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}} [[Creator/EllenMcLain herself]], complete with repurposed dialog from both ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
** Another cab calls itself [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Clarice]] and insists you help her silence... the flamingos.
** A third one spouts {{Ice Cream Koan}}s lifted verbatim from the Vorlons from ''Series/BabylonFive''.

* The plot of ''Johnny Mnemonic'' involves Keanu Reeves playing a character who uploads computer data into his own head that will kill him if he keeps it there. In ''Cyberpunk 2077'' the player character uploads Keanu Reeves into their own head, and it will kill them if they keep him there.

* In the Olive Branch gig, V helps out a Russian man, Sergei, who ran afoul of the Tyger Claws via a "misunderstanding" involving a hitman that had a beard, brown shoes, and his little dog. When asked, Sergei states that what actually happened was "much worse" than if Sergei had killed the man. This is a shout out to ''Film/JohnWick'', in which the titular hitman had his house broken into and dog killed because he wouldn't sell his car to a Russian man.

* The mission ''[[Music/ChrisCornell You Know My Name]]'' involves you infiltrating a [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 casino]], while [[BadassInANiceSuit dressing up]] off course. [[spoiler:You also end up bonding with a woman who deceives you for sympathetic reasons.]]

* One side of the same tank features graffiti that says "Здесь были Киса и Ося" ("Kisa and Osya were here"), referencing [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheTwelveChairs The Twelve Chairs]]
* During the Fixer, Merc, Soldier, Spy mission V can meet Russian merc quoting (non-verbatim) famous "power is in truth" speech from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Brother2 Brother 2]]

* [[https://i.gyazo.com/fc53337e9342777e8934c357b8942e19.png A tattoo on Viktor's bicep]] bears a rather uncanny resemblance to a [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/865/810/c61.png variation of Wojak]]

* To ''Film/OldBoy''. A dead end alley in Heywood is strewn with corpses and melee weapons. Next to a hammer is a data shard detailing a conversation between a man who has been imprisoned for fifteen years and his mysterious captor.

* To Film/DieHard: You can find an ill-fated "John [=McBane=]" inside a ventilation shaft along with a couple of corpses behind a tall office building.

* One of the final stretches of Phantom Liberty has you pursue Songbird into a Militech facility; there's a diagonal cargo elevator that naturally resembles that of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' taking you down into the area where the Cynosure core resides. The core itself also somewhat resembles the containment for Akira's remains.

* In the backstory for the Bloodsport gig, a boxer takes money from the Tyger Claws to take a dive in his next fight; Instead, he uses that money to bet on the fight he was supposed to take a dive in, wins, then skips town. This is essentially Butch Coolidge's story arc in [[Film/{{PulpFiction}} Pulp Fiction]], and the boxer in the game even has the same last name as Butch.

* Doctor Viktor Vector's receptionist Misty has almost the same hairstyle and general getup as the replicant Pris sports in the early parts of ''Blade Runner''. In a similar vein, Evelyn Parker is strikingly similar to Joi from ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' in both appearance and color palette.
* The graphic for the Assassin perk is an iconic image of Deckard holding his gun at the ready.
* There are multiple shoutouts to ''Blade Runner''[='=]s main antagonist Roy Batty. In Pacifica, you can find an abandoned hotel named "Batty's Hotel" featuring a folded Origami figure in the logo and using the same font as the movie's poster. In the Westbrook Columbarium, you can find a memorial to him featuring a piece of his famous Tears in Rain soliloquy. Finally, in northeast Heywood you can find on the top of the Advocet Hotel a dead man slumped over with a dove sitting in his lap. Rain will even start to fall as you enter the rooftop. To his right are the highlighted words "Like Tears" on a nearby wall, once again referencing the Soliloquy.

* The PC version of the game contains two pieces of DLC equipment [[note]]Obtained by linking the game to the developer's storefront Website/GOGDotCom[[/note]] that directly reference the series: the Wolf School Jacket and the Wolf School T-shirt.

* Who else goes by just the letter V, was involved in a top-secret experiment gone wrong, and ends up waging war against the ones at the top? [[Film/VForVendetta A certain man in a mask.]] It helps that there's also [[spoiler:a character in ''V for Vendetta'' named Valerie, too.]]

* In the backstory for the Bloodsport gig, a boxer takes money from the Tyger Claws to take a dive in his next fight; Instead, he uses that money to bet on the fight he was supposed to take a dive in, wins, then skips town. This is essentially Butch Coolidge's story arc in [[Film/{{PulpFiction}}]], and the boxer in the game even has the same last name as Butch.

* In the backstory for the Bloodsport gig, a boxer takes money from the Tyger Claws to take a dive in his next fight; Instead, he uses that money to bet on the fight he was supposed to take a dive in, wins, then skips town. This is essentially Butch Coolidge's story arc in [[Film/PulpFiction]], and the boxer in the game even has the same last name as Butch.

* This isn't the first video game where the assassination of an [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Emperor]] that your character witnessed helped kickstart the main plot.

* This isn't the first video game where the assassination of an [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Emperor]] helped kickstart the main plot.

* This isn't the first game where the assassination of an [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Emperor]] helped kickstart the main plot.

* The mission ''You know my name'' involves you infiltrating a [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 casino]], while [[BadassInANiceSuit dressing up]] off course. [[spoiler:You also end up bonding with a woman who deceives you for sympathetic reasons.]]